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book

• Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States.  Forthcoming Summer 2008 with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics).  Click here for details.

published and working papers

• The Role of Veto Players in Economic Reform (with Edmund J. Malesky) - available upon request

• Government Control of the Media (with Konstantin Sonin) - available upon request

• Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness (with J. David Brown and John S. Earle)

• Investment Without Democracy: Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies (with Philip Keefer) [substantially revised from earlier working paper of same name]

• Businessman Candidates (with Konstantin Sonin and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)

• Electoral Institutions and the National Provision of Local Public Goods. 2007. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2(1):5-25. (Unpublished appendix.)

• Revenue Traps. 2007. Economics and Politics. 19(1):73-96.

• A Formal Model of Exit and Voice. 2006. Rationality and Society. 18(4):395-418.

• The Consequences of Collective Action: An Incomplete-Contracts Approach. 2006. American Journal of Political Science. 50(3):802-823.

• A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic (with John S. Earle). 2003. Economics and Politics. 15(1):1-32.

• Shifting Electoral Geography in Russia's 1991 and 1996 Presidential Elections. 2000. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics. 41(5):379-387.

reviews and other published work

• Review of Yi Feng, Democracy, Governance, and Performance: Theory and Evidence. 2004. Economics of Transition. 12(3):587-589.